Momventions and other things you didn’t know you needed

Seems like every other day, I hear about another born-out-of-necessity product that a clever parent has invented because When I Was Pregnant/Nursing/Co-Sleeping with Little Makynzie There Was Nothing Like This on the Market.

Momventions I’d like to see:

1. A Baby/English translator.

2. Self-changing diapers.

3. A double-strength, calorie-free margarita.

4. A baby monitor that goes to the crib and soothes the little cryer back to sleep instead of just amplifying the screams.

Instead, this landed on my desk:

babydagny.com

The Purple Frog Plush Pacifier is like a binky fused with a Beanie Baby. In the press release, momventor Andrea McGinty — she also founded It’s Just Lunch — says it “is every parent’s dream come true.”

(My dream involves Jake Gyllenhaal and a whole lot of those double-strength, calorie-free margaritas. Not sure how the Purple Frog will help in that department.)

“Thanks to Frog I was able to make it through an entire night without my daughter, Dagny, crying because her pacifier fell out,” she continues. (Presumably that’s Dagny in the photo.) “Even when Frog did fall out, she was able to recognize him in her crib, reach for him and place him right back into her mouth.”

Seriously?

Purple Frog uses a Soothie pacifier. Peanut is brand loyal to her bobo. Anybody got a baby who wants to give this a try?

Be the first to post “gimme” to this message, and I’ll send you one free Purple Frog Plush Pacifier. In exchange, you’ll report back on whether your dreams have been answered. Baby not included.

You can tell that was an ebaying mom there! Jonesing for the bucket of margaritas in bulk at a bargain price. Trying to type with one hand, fending off the munchkin who can hit twenty keys in one pass, and apparently spell nocarbarita.